[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)

[Arnaud Quette]

2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com>

>
> ----- "Arnaud Quette" <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka
> > ----- "Arnaud Quette" wrote:
> >
> > > Dear fellows,
> > >
> > > As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the
> > help
> > > of Eaton.
> > >
> > > Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas,
> > and
> > > is now working the Windows port.
> > >
> > > Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are
> > > working on XCP and quality / validation related projects.
> > >
> > > I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton
> > > France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port.
> > > A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work
> > on
> > > this topic.
> > > But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result
> > soon
> > > (around Christmas).
> > >
> > > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will:
> > > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under
> > > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT
> > > packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3
> > > licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story.
> > > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more
> > > information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140
> > > - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward
> > > standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management.
> > > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide
> > tools
> > > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository,
> > > which means easier tasks for the users.
> > >
> > > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton
> > > Opensource team ^_^
> > >
> > > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)
> >
> > great news! :)
> >
> > indeed.
> >
> > btw, I've seen a Fedora forwarded report (#656440) by a user on
> > Alioth' tracker (#312848).
> > you should probably forward these directly to speed up the process.
>
> yes, but I was ill and he was faster :)
>

does that mean that RedHat / Fedora are sensible to virus :-p

btw, can you update bugzilla #347771 to point the working branch:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/ssl-nss-port/

I'll ping you back once we have something that can be tested...
One more question: do you (RH / Fedora) already have UIs for certificates
management (both textual and graphical)?
Or do you know anything that can suit the purpose?

cheers,
Arnaud
-- 
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